From what I discovered today the building's being rezoned to make way for a boutique hotel with affixed high-rise condos that would, according to the proposed plans for the property, obliterate current neighborhood residents' view of Turtle Creek. Unfair Park has also learned the Canadian developer wants to build a restaurant on the property, which neighbors fear -- chiefly because of the increased traffic and because it's in a dry area of town one block away from Reverchon Park.

All this comes five years after Meyer's house at 4400 Rheims Place in Highland Park was razed after a contentious dispute. Welch also tells Unfair Park concerning the Turtle Creek property, "To build an edifice like this from scratch is cost-prohibitive today. You just couldn't do it now." --Robert Wilonsky